"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.“


-William Barclay

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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

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